Jamie is primarily a Live Artist creating both solo and collaborative work for a wide audience in both theatre and non theatre spaces. His interest lies in risk, physicality, improvising, vaudeville cabaret, burlesque, music, contemporary theatre and experimental performance.

For Jamie contemporary art is about creating something that is a reflection or a response to what’s going on in the contemporary world around us. Jamie feels he has a driving force which makes him want to create Live Art. He says “… it’s like writing a diary but instead of it being a closed book it is open for other people to view, interpret, discuss and debate.”

For more information about Jamie’s work and performance dates go to: www.myspace.com/jamiestevenfletcher.

At Emergency 06 Jamie performed Do You Have Big Ears? A solo performance by Jamie Fletcher (visuals by Jo Howard)
You’ve figured out the major truth; you are not good enough to have a relationship with God, you want forgiveness, you want to believe but to do so would you surrender your life. A performance questioning beliefs and how far you would go for them.

From this Jamie received a Method Lab commission and created a new piece:

A Pound a Day
If you had only a pound a day to spend, how would you choose to spend it?
How much of your day would be spent making that decision?

Live artist Jamie Fletcher put this to the test in extreme conditions. He abandoned his home and spent a week from the 26th March to 1st April on the streets of Manchester with just £1 a day. Drawing on his experiences from his week of research Jamie presented A Pound a Day at Method Lab.

Not a piece about homelessness, rather, Jamie exploring what it means to scale back our possessions, how the mind works when it is not inundated with shopping decisions and thoughts of material gain, and whether we can rely on the kindness of others to see us through.

Paradoxically, the kindness of others relies on others having more than they need and the desire to give to someone who has nothing. Can we all scale back or does society need those with excess to keep it moving?